Russian Political Analyst Viacheslav Matuzov: I believe Russia gave the Syrian Army the Green Light to Down the Israeli F-16

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In an Al-Jazeera TV interview on February 10, Russian political analyst and former diplomat Viacheslav Matuzov said: "I believe that Russia gave the Syrian army the green light (to down the Israeli F-16)." While in the past, Russia encouraged Syria to "avoid opening a second front" in cases of strikes against the Syrian army or its allies, "today, things have changed," he said. According to Matuzov, Israel "committed a strategic mistake, because it did not take into consideration the political a...